102 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
loosely branched from the base and ciespitose, rooting below, the flower- 
ing shoots elongated, leafy, erect, pubescent; leaves elliptic oblong, 
acute, sparingly villous with long silky hairs; racemes in pairs, erect, 
several-flowered, bracteate at base; nutlets with faflexeid ciliate teeth 
on the margins 
Var. ARETIOIDES, Hook. Densely czespitose, 3/’—2/ high, covered with 
soft silky hairs; leaves densely imbricated below, elliptical-lanceolate, 
acute; racemes few-flowered, short-exserted; tube of the corolla scarcely 
feet, Coulter. Sangre de Cristo Set Brandegee. Meehan. Gri ay’ ’s Peak, 
at 12-13,000 feet oonotina Redfield 
Fimioaiontes ANGUSTIFOLIUM, Tor. , Pacif. Rk. R. Surv., 5, p. 363. 
Annual, very hispid, with spreading hairs; stem 3’-1° high, suberect, 
widely branched; leaves linear; racemes "terminating the pranches, 
usually forked and at length elon gated; flowers sessile, bractless; calyx 
2”-3" long in fruit, very hispid with yellowish hairs, lobes lanceolate- 
ite, 6//-12” long, fi i 
e base on very short Fes in nutlets 1-4, oblong, acute, 1 long, 
convex ot maaatclg papillose on the back, attached to the style to the 
middle ventral groove.—Near hag er and Colorado Springs, Porter. 
Tareas ORASSISEPALU uM, T. & G. Pacif. BMBoSurv.,2, podst: 
Annual, very hispid, with spreading hairs; stem much branched from 
the base, branches ascending, oe high; leaves obovate-lanceolate, 
rather obtuse; racemes eceenee xcept the upper portion; fructiferous 
calyx ventri cose at base, closed and contracted above the middle, the 
segmel ey thickened and iiiated on the back, Anely pilose on the mar- 
i it 
gins, Wi ge, strong, hispid hairs on the back ; nutlets heteromor- 
phous, ovate, convex on the back ; * them fiitriculiee wasthalnte, the 
th larger and nearly or quite glabrous.—Hall & Harbour. 434. Denver 
and Colorado Springs, Porter. Cation City, Brandegee. 
ERITRICHIUM GLOMERATUM, DO., Prod. 10, p, 131. Perennial or bien- 
nial; stem simple, erect, 6-18" high, usually gna and rather stout 
nd ‘rigid, very hirsute with sprea adin ng hairs, leafy especially at base; 
leaves 2/4’ long, alterna oe or tinea ‘Spi atilate e or obl: anceolate, 
sub-acute, hirsute and tims lly ie or less appressed, pubescent; spike 
lets 5-9 flowered, lateral aeriing pliate ed, 1 more or les s peduncled, cote 
usually bifurcated, and the upper ones sessile Gener gi! 
near ly sessile ; calyx very hispid, 5-parted, the linear-lanceolate hen 
equaling the corolia- tube, much enlarged i in fruit; limb of the white co- 
rolla broad and expanded, truncated scales of the throat conspicuous ; 
nutlets large, 13” long, ovate and narrowed above, but obtuse, more or 
less rugose and ie jer on the back, which i is surrounded by an 
acute, slightly sed margin, suleate ventrally and attached to the 
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elongated style to ‘he middle, yee “ «& Harbour, 433 ia part. Colorado 
Ret ie hgh 
ATUM, Porter, (E. viaaiion: Porter, Hayden’s Rep., 1870, p- 
419) Stout; “stem erect, 20-30 high, vite fie inflorescene 29 much 
ated, few- Howered, lower gues Boek oie. upper ones ‘ale, very 
much shorter than the long, spreading, bracteal leaves, which become 
narrowly linear above.—This variety is very common on the p lains at 
